Thread: Please tell me if my plan is good

Originally Posted by fccexpert

Sounds like a plan, as long as the razor is in fairly good shape. This is more or less how I deal with newly aquired razors as well except I use a Norton 4/8K and usually dispense with the finer polishing stone and go straight to my strop. If the razor is is such bad condition that I would need a coarser stone to "set" the bevel, I don't want to be bothered with it.

Originally Posted by fccexpert

If you want to keep it. I usually just throw them out (I have dropped two so far).

Can you send the razors that you deem no good to me??? I will restore / have them restored and give them away to people that could use them..... There are a few newer restorers on the forum that would love a shot at doing them and then they could go in the giveaways....

This may or may not be obvious, but I'll say it anyway...

When lapping a series of hones, be sure to lap from finest to coarsest hone so that any residual grit transfer won't matter.

Since a few weeks I have a Naniwa superstone 3K/8K combo (like a Norton 4/8). I tried setting a bevel with the 3K and it was horrendously slow, so yes, get a coarser grit. I actually ordered a King 220/1K combo stone for that, with the idea that an ugly scratch pattern won't matter too much, since I've got the Naniwa combo stone and also a C12K to finalize it.

I actually lap with sandpaper on a flat surface and it seems working fine for me (I'm in the process of flattening the rough back of the C12K, which is getting close to being usable now ). Any hard cons against using the sandpaper method?

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Yes you have the right plan


Water water water when lapping,, The Naniwa's come with a stupid label on the stone surface Which is going to take a wee bit of work to get rid of that residue... I lapped mine untill I could no longer tell where that stupid label had been then worried about the grid

So far I have only lapped one -- the 12K, and am not done with that one yet. Following your advice I started by just getting rid of the residue from removing that sticker! I left it to dry completely before drawing penci lines and haven't got back to that yet. At least I found a use for that new smiley. Here's what I'd like to do to those stickers:


It wasn't even easy to peel off the sticker! Fingernails barely did the job of peeling up enough of a corner to get a good grip on it and boy is that glue strong!